The Sun. — London, England, 1864-04-08 00:00:00

MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. Th e arrivals of English wheat fresh up to our market today were small. Both for red and white qualities the demand, however, was in a sluggish state, yet prices were Unaltered from Monday last. The supply Of foreiin wheat on the stands was but mo derate, Millers operated cautiously, and a limited business Was transacted in all descriptions, at late rates. Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly, at previous quotations, The Supply of barley on offer was moderate. Generally speaking the trade ruled quiet, at late currencies. Malt was in slow request, at late rates. The market was well supplied with oats, and the demand ruled less active. The late advance in prices was, however, supported. Beans and peas ruled firm, at quite previous quotations. In flour a moderate business was transacted, on former terms. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Alan', Oats. Flout. Iribt• '''.'"•• 710 1,160 / 3,350 ' 9) ' 530 I. . V GA . ....... '4111 **•• 3,510 2,530 30,7,0 I 75 ska, 2.810 brie. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. These markets continue to ba moderately supplied with to /a and country-killed meat. On the whole the trade is Btea db,at our quotations. Per Slb. by 8 8 d Inf erior be • 30 3 2 !gifting d 34 3 8 Prime large o. do. 3 10 4 0 Do. Small do. 4 0 4 2 La.rge pork .... 3 2 3 10 Inferior mutton. 3 4 3 10 the carcase. nd s 6 Middlingmutton 4 0 4 8 Prime do 4 6 4 4 Veal Small pork ~ 4 0 4 6 Lamb BOROUGH HOP. Scarcely any change has taken place in the value either °fllnglish or foreign hops since we last wrote. The sup lies on offer are but moderate, nevertheless sales for the most Part progress slowly, ret previous quotations. Mid and East Keats £5 Os to £9 108 per cwt. Weald of Rents 5 Os to 7 7s „ Susses 4 15s to 6 15s „ Yearlings 3 Os to 5 Os „ Bavarian 5 5s to 8 8s 9) Belgian American ness and of a smaller amount of business in pro. gress. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 891 4 ; Exchequer Bills, 73. 2s. die.; India 5 per Cents,, 105 1 ; do. 4 per Cents., 991 =1; Debentures, 994- 1, and Bonds ss. die. In the Foreign Market business is moderately active, and prices tend upwards. Mexican are 451 46; Greek 241 a ; Spanish Passive, 351 i; Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, 71 74 ; do. Cansolides 531 1; Portuguese, 499 d ; and Russian, 914- The operations in the Railway Share Market have been very limited, and prices have not varied to any important extent, with the exception of Metropolitan, which have advanced about £1 10s. 'i he Foreign and Colonial lines remain inactive, without material change as regards values. In B ink and Miscellaneous Shares a e opera tions have been of a less extensive character, and prices have, with a few exceptions, shown less firmness. London and Westminster realise 92.1 94; Bank of London, 1701; Union of London, 49 50Z ; and London Financial, 26! 271. The current quotations for some of the principal new undertakings are subjoined :—Londou and Liverpool Hotel, 11, prem.; Ottoman Financial, 1 1 prem. ; North Australian, 11 prem.; Sabloniere Hotel,. 1 1 prem.; Port Augusta Railway, 2 to 11 prem. ; International Land Credit, 21 I prem. ; Imperial Financial, 61 7 prem.; Financial Corpora tion, 11 21- prem.; Thames Iron, 3 4 prem. ; City Offices, 3i prem.; Credit Foncier, 6* prem. ; Credit Mobilier, 41 5 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols Ditto Account, May 5 92 3 per Cent. Reduced New 3 per Cent. B 9l i 3 "iew 21 per Cent. Jan. 1891 A Linuities, 30 yrs, expire ,9th Jan., 1880 — Ditto tor 30 yra, expire sth April, 1885 1 43 Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 2Ol Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 & 3 per Cent 7 cis Ditto £SOO Ditto £lOO and £200 dank England 81k, 41 per Ct. Ditto Account.. — INDItaN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 220 19 Ditto 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Ditto 4 per Cent. 1883 Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent 9ll Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 .. 102 Ditto ditto Aug., 1866 993 3 Ditto Bonds£l,o oo c 3 dis Ditto under £l,OOO .... 3 die FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent — • Ditto 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Ditto 1863 .. 881 ! ! 8 _lhilian 6 per Cent ... — Ditto 41 pet C0nt...., Egyptian 7 per Cent — Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons — Ditto Account _ 24! 3 Ditto Coupons — Ditto Account ' l/ Italian 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway) 74 Mexican 3 per Celli Ditto Account Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada — Ditto 2 per Cent. .. 303 Ditto Deferred — Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) -- Peruvian 41 per Cent Ditto 3 per Cent. (tJribarren) — Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account 49 / Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 Ditto Account .. •••••• 493 Ditto Scrip (1863) £3O paid .. pm Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 9l Ditto 41 per Cent.. 1850 .. 881 8 Ditto 3 per Cent 1859 Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862 Sardinian 5 per Cent .... Ditto Account Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto New Deferred Ditto Account Ditto Passive Ditto Account 'panish Cert. of Coup not funded — Ditto Account — Swedish, 4 per Cent Turkish 6 per Cent. 18 54 .. 931 4 33 Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 .. — i)itto Account Ditto, £lOO Bonds — Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account Ditto £lOO Bonds 724 Ditto 1863 .. Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent — Venezuela 3 per Cent. Ditto Account 23! ...,.. Ditto ti per Cent., 1852 Ditto Account S9A .1., Ditto 1 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in Lond Austrian, 5 per Cent,. Ex. 10 Florins. Belgian 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f... Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Ciuil 641 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates French Rentes, 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f — Ditto Account Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs — Ditto Account .. Piedmontese 5 per Cent., Ex. 25f...... e e ruvian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct. Ex. 4s. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols Money Ditto May COLONIAL. IZA..—A fair amount of business has been transacted in lest kinds, and at public sale full rates have been obtained f or good descriptions. Some fine Japan greens were sold at ft high figure. SuGAit.—The demand for raw sugar has been very limited, pending the alteration in the duties. Holders, however, have demanded an advance of 6d per cwt. for Vest India descriptions. COFFEE.--There has been a steady demand for most descriptions, especially plantation Ceylon. In some de eriptions, however, quotations may be quoted is to 2s per cwt. lower. RIDE.--A moderate business has been done, and quota ,lons for fine East India have been well supported. COcO A.--More activity has been apparent in the demand, 4 " higher rates have been current for superior qualities of Trinidad. XONEY MARKET AND C°MMEROIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There i s st ill a very b r i s k d eman d f or mone y at the 13 " k of England, in the open market, and in the Stock Exchange. Full rates are required for acco mmodation, acid the immediate position of affair s is indicative of considerable firmness. The Bank of England return for the week to Wtdne s d ay i s rather unfavoura bl e , as w ill b e s e en by the movements exhibited in the subjoined -a alYsis as regards the bullion, notes in reserve, kid other securities : Active Circulation • • Increase .. • Bullion Decrease Rest , Decrease Public Deposits Decrease Other D e p os it .. s. .. £21,003,220 .. 693.695 .. 13,616,763 .. 6i6,756 .. 3,144,179 740,736 .. 9,818,880 .. 461,678 .. 13,318,299 689,313 525,691 26,575 11,273,056 epob. Increase .. • • Seven Day and other Bills .. Increase .• • • • • Government Securities Decrease .• •• Other Securities .. 22,853,453 Increase 654,083 Notes Unemployed .. .. 6,583,655 Decrease . 1,066,875 About 200,000 sovereigns were withdrawn from the B ink yesterday for transmission to the Brazils, but £12,000 in bar gold was taken into that esta blishment. The Telegraph Construction and Maintenance ri u Qin pang, to be amal ga mat e d with th e G u tt a P e rch a ' ° l7l l.pany and Messrs. Glass, Elliot, and Co.'s menu ;tete ry, requires a capital of £1,000,000 (first issue 760,000), in shares of £2O each. The undertaking is to make and maintain lines of communication, b . 4 : t h Submarine and on land, in every part of the °rl d• The arrangement includes the assignment t° the company o f t h e l ease f or the submarine t _ A , Is uph between Malta and Alexandria, and the ‘ L etcand r i a , Cairo, and Suez Telegraph. S ubjoined is a resolution provisionally adopted b ?' the: committee of the Sock Exchange, with the v l "' Of arresting the rash speculation going on in the a har es o f t h e new com p an ies now almost daily int ro r duced :—" The committee will appoint a set 111' day f or t ransac ti o ns in shares of a new com oratl:7 if no allegation of fraud or misrepresentation au fl'aud has been submitted to them, and provided au toient sc r ip or shares be ready for delivery; but c ,, b Bet dement shall be special and shall not app l y to ' ltr gains made previously to delivery of e;llallot letters ; no difference arising out of such bar ;1;4:111 ahatl u n d er an y circumstances be allowed as a rna against a defaulter's estate." d i ,' " bv) operations in the Foreign and Colonial Pro duce M ar k ets d ur i ng t h e l a st day or two have been t 0 a° f ni t ;° average extent as regards tea, which realised t '" 'ates a t pu bli c sa les. Sugar, however, owing e uncertainty felt with regard to the alteration ie duties, has been neglected, although holders iq~ t demanded slightly enhanced prices for West inferior In coffee the o perations have been moderate, qualities of colonial having given way abo ut: ls. t o 2 s . p er c wt. Cocoa, rice, fruit, and attpetre, have continued in fair request without 131 terial change, while tallow has been rather in ao five the dealings for both present and forward deliv ery resulting in a slight decline. We are requested to state that, in consequence • a denture at the Royal Institution this evening, t 'k• the Bonelli Telegraph, the instruments cannot si:en after to-day at No. 7, Angel-court ; also that .43.4 ,. D. J. Jaffe, of the firm of Jaffe Brothers, Belfast d Dundee, has joined the board of directors of B °t telli's Electric Telegraph Company. The Bonelli Ca npany's shares closed to-day at 1/ prem. 1 : t he object of the " Telegraphic Construction O la t tl Maintenance Company" is to unite the business the Gutta Percha Company with the establish -Bent of M essrs . Gl a ss, Elliot, and Co., and to make 4 41 maintain telegraphic lines of communication, i` bu llrine and land, in every part of t h e world. t i s ascertai ne d that the manufacture of cobles boo be more b e n e ficially carried on in one esta -Ilshalent than in two; hence M essrs. Glass, i 1 "1 and Co. have purchased the plant , good it,:• I ra 3 and wor k s o f t h e G u tt a Percha Company, ; tr ansferred them at cost price to this co a." tq ; and this company acquires the whole • bo th concerns for £lOO,OOO in fully 1,11.34 up shares. It thus comes into possession of "amalgamated business, and is entitled to profits t 4r fr°lll the let J anuar y last. There are also trans hel'ed the l eases of eastern su b mar i ne t e l egr aphs r bY the firm, From the large profits hitherto and the prospect of a considerable exten ttft,et°' business, a very remunerative return is e d on the capital. This is fixed at £1,00D,00 0 , °at the first issue i 420 i s to be £750,000, in 37,500 g tia c each. Th e b ro k ers are Messrs. Seymour st atic , °. and Mess rs . Cazenove and Co. We under ale, that the capital stock of this company has t tou. 'Y been subscribed for, nextand that the applica lit't will cl ose on Monda y. Two o'CLocK. tg.i 4.t , P aris this day, according to Mr. Neuter's ' r anl, the Th ree per C e nt. Rentes were 60 f. 05c. I th er firm. \i f or es feature of interest is perceptible in the market. for r „ ne English Funds, which c ontinues quiet at tr io quotations, quotations, and Consols are again 91Z 1, for oth t1 : 3 :: and 91 1 j, 92 for the May n ecount. Even thf Ittg ue intrtuatints ot the Stock E'.change Tee:lll3 111 Y 4 t begins to exhibit symptoms of less firm- Liverpool Cotton Market—This Dap. Market quiet. Sales about 5,000 bales. Week's sales, 46,060 bales, including 4,450 on speculation, and 7,270 for export ; actual export, 11,279 bales ; week's import©, 58,319 bales. Quotations —Middling Orleans, 261 ; do. Mobile, 261 ; do. 26 ; estimated fair Egyptians, 261 ; Surats, 101 24. Estimated stock-309,560 bales. SHIPPING—This Day. LoNnoN, April B.—Wind this day at noon—East ; moderate breeze and fine weather. PORTSMOUTH, Aprit 7.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived— Helioni, from Callao for Dunkirk. OFF PORTSMOUTH, April 7.—Arrived—Clara Louise, from Buenos Ayres for Antwerp. FALMOUTH, April 7.—Wind N.H.—Arrived—Queen of the West, from Boston. PLYMOUTH, April s.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Chalmers, from Eoo-chow-foo. BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. GRAVESEND, Friday Morning. Arrived, April 7—Maria, from Aalborg. Arrived, April B—Waterloo, steamer, from Rotterdam — London, steamer, from Uddewalla. Sailed—Seine, steamer, for Boulogne—Lord J. Russell, steamer, for Dunkirk. DEAL, Friday Morning. Passed—Triton, ship, for Litherick—Johann Daniel, for Kurrachee—Latona, screw steamer, for Genoa—all trom London. MR. STANSFELD.—The Patric alludes as follows to the closing act of the Stansfeld incident—" Mr. Stansfeld has done justice to himself and resigned his post in the Administration. Let us acknow ledge to the honour of England that he has fallen under the verdict of public opinion. It is now a settled thing that a man cannot call himself Maz zini's friend without incurring the reprobation of all honest men. That is our opinion on this side of the Channel. We are charmed to see that it is likewise that of the whole of the English people." The Pays points out that Mr. Stansfeld has ended by doing what he should have done at the outset. The Debats describes the hon. member for Halifax as giving way before the storm which he had so indiscreetly brought down on himself. CORPS OF COMMISSIONAIRES.—The annual con certs of this corps, in the Cambridge enclosure, near Spring Gardens, St. James's Park, will commence this afternoon and continue daily from 6,30 till 8.30 p,m. THE LASH FOR GAROTTERS,—The sentences passed at the York Assizes, which closed on Wednesday, are remarkable for the number of instances in which the lash has been ordered, 30 lashes each having been adjudged, in addition to imprisonment, in the sentences of 10 prisoners convicted of garotte and other robberies with violence. MESSRS. COxWELL AND GLAISHER'S BALLOON ASCENT.—The balloon which ascended on Wednes day from the Woolwich Arsenal Gas Works alighted a little before dusk on the grounds of the Marquis of Camden, near Sevenoaks. The height ascended did not much exceed two miles. The balloon passed through a cloud a mils in thickness into brillia nt sunshine, the atmoshero below being somewhat foggy. The aeronauts did no t go b e y o nd the reach of sounds from the ground. The goat which they took up did not manifest any symptoms of alarm, but re mained quiet as if under a sense of perfect security. The baPoon was two-thirds full, and contained 60,000 edit feet of gas. IC Imps gives us a very graphic description of Garibaldi's arrival at Southampton, from the pen of Loui , Blanc, who calls it " a spectacle ci incAlculable influence end astounding grandeur." TIM SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 8, 1864. SHARE MARKETS This day. - _ ORDINARY SHARES AND STOUES. l ! Closing BusineL* Share Railways. i"""' Prioe. j done. J r ßir., Wol., and Str. Val. Blythe and Tyne. Bost.,Sleat.,andllid.Co 'Bristol and Exeter 'Caledonian ......... , Cork and BandOn 'Corawal' divj - till 6pe.p an.ha Do. BJE• been paid to B. Dublin b Belfast June. ! !Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June.! 'Edinburgh & Glasgow.. :Glasg. and S. Western.' jG real Eastern, Ord. stir 8 84 Si 9 83 E 5 118 119 118 i Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st !Great Northof Scotland !Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. an!! W. of IrelauJ Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashize & Yorkshire London and Biackwall Lou., Bright.,& S. Coas t Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & So*.th Western Man., SheL, & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do t shares Metropolitan Midland Do Ne Do Binning. & Derby MM. Gt. W. of Delano Do. 4 shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Lccds Do York Do Carlisle... NDrth London Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scut. Mid. stock 1 Shrews. and Welchpoo. Shropshire Union South Devon .. South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun, Staines, Wok.,and Wok. Stockton & Darlington, Do Do New, 186 G Taff Vale.. .. Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.ezit West Midland -Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford 6i 7 35 37 16 17 90 92 101. 106 461 71 64 7i 1281 12H 13,4 1314 130 132 91 93 611 65 1091 1091, 67 t 9 103/ iOli 41 4.i 1091 1091 98 99 53 bi 1 84 ' 128 i lzgli U 8 10u 52 63 25 26 1 WI 101} 56 V 88i 89 128 131 14 24 p 78 79 1( it t2l 123 41 43 98 100 63 61 33 35 90i 91' 'IN 103 87 38 - 9i 10 8 Si p 165 17J 5 7 t, 3 4 p, 9f 96 1031 47 JOINT-STOCK BANKS—[Continued.] London Joint Stock, 434 L on don and Northern (litn.), 21 London and South African, 29 London and South-Western (Um.), 23 London and Westminster, 92 Iff Metrop. and Prov. Bank (lim.), Si Mexican, lim., 6 ) ; New Zealand Bank, 15 Scinde, Punjaub, and Dallll, lim„ 12 Ditto, new, 12 in Union of Australia, 551 Ditto, new, 321 I 3 Union of Ireland (lint), 21 Union of London, 50 ri AIISCELitANEOUS. Anglo-Mexican Mint, 211 I Bombay (gas, limited, 51 Canada Company, 75 Ceyloa Company, 12 Commercial Union ,Insurance), t h Consolidated Discount, Ern.. Contract Corporation. lim., 61 Credit Foncier, 21 Discount Corporation, limited, 12 Egyptian Commercial and;Trading, Rm., 51 Gen. Credit and Finance of Lannon, lim., 1013 Hudson" s Bay. 194 Imperial Financia', lira., 111 12 Indian Carrying (Ern), 11 International Financial :Society, 121 11; Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, redem. 1570, issued 90, 871 Joint •stock Discount, lien., 74 1 Land Securities, Urn., 5 4; London Finainial Association, lim., 26; 71 new, issued at 4 pin, 15 London, Italian, and Adriati. Steam, 21 Londn Provincial Marine, 41 aladras Irrigation and Canal, Ditto, new, 201 Marin Investmt nt, Urn., 3 Mauritius Land, Credit, and Agency, Mercantile Credit Association, lint, 151 Natal Land and Colonization Company, lim., National Discount Cornp ny, lim., 131 Ditto, new, issued at 5 pm , 5/ North British Australasian, North British and .tlercantile Insurance, lim., 201 Oriental Inland Steam, lirn , 31 3 Panama, N. Zealand, an I Aust. R. Mail, lim., 74 Peninsula and () iental Steam. 811 Quebrada Land, Rail , and Mining, , , lim. 31 Royal Mail 6team. 9 1 Societe Financiere d ,gypte, lim., 5; 1 Universal Marine (Insurance), lint, 5 SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day, - BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. EPSOM RACES.-THIS DAY. WATERLOO PLATE. Suburban I. Practitioner .. Coronet Fourteen ran. NEW TWO-YEAR-OLD STAKES. Friday Lemonade Gontran Twelva ran. BALACLAVA STAN ES. Vixen filly Usher Eight ran, GREAT METROPOLITAN STAKES. Joco Touch-and- Go Major King Charming The above three ran a dead heat for second place. Lord Zetland was fifth. Eleven ran. Won by a length. WILTFN STAKES. Liinve Junior Attache Attraction Five ran. DURDANS PLATE. Earl of Surrey T. P. Cooke Rosa Lee 3 Nine ran. THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS--This Evening, The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack at five o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. . _ The following bills were read a second time :—Colne Railway, Chertsey Gas, Llaney Railway and Dock, Newry and Greenore Railway, Southwark Park, Folke , stone Water, ,Matlock anti Bath Water, Marple ow Mills, and tia) field Junction Railway, LEASES AND SALES OF SETTLED ESTATES BILL. This bill passed through committee and was ordered to be reported on Thursday next. COURT OF CHANCERY (DESPATCH OF BUSI INESS) This bill was read a third time and passed. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS---This Evening. The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax Junction Railway Bill was read a third time and passed. THE LISBURN ELECTION COMMITTEE. Mr. ADAIR gave notice that on Monday next he would move that the minutes of the proceedings of this committee and the evidence given before it should no laid on the table of the house. KIDNAPPING BRITISH SUBJECTS IN THE UNITED STATES. Sir A. AGNEW asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether her Majesty's Government had received any reports from consular officers in the United States of America, stating that British subjec s had been kidnapped, detained, or otherwise outraged with the object of forcing them to serve as soldiers in the Federal army ? Mr. LAYAR D said that reports had been received from her Majesty's Consuls at Now York, Boston, and Portland to the effecc that certain Iriehmen had been kidnapped for the Federal service in the United States. It appeared that when they reached the United States they were imprisoned for some time, and were plied with whisky, when they were induced to enlist in the Federal army. Instruc tions had been sent to Lord Lyons, directing him to take steps in reference to this matter, and to protect English sub jects in the United !..tates. TOBACCO JUICE FOR. SHEEP. Lord J. BROWNE asked the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, whether, as tobacco juice for sheep dressing is allowed to be made at Glasgow from tobacco free of duty, he would allow the same privilege to be granted to parties ap plying therefore in Dublin, B e lf as t , C or k, a nd the other principal ports of Ireland. The CHANCE 'LLO It of the EXCHEQUER said that the privilege extended to all the ports in Great Britain and Ireland. CONVICTS IN COUNTY GAOLS. Mr. 0. GORE—Government having increased the allow ance towards the maintenance in county and borough gaols of convicts sentenced to penal servitude from a maximum of 4s per head per week to a maxi mum of 8s for suc h a period as they may be detained in prison, b e y on d two calendar m onths from the time of cGnviction asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department Ii Department, whether it was intended to keep such convicts in oounty gaols for any time longer than at present, as it will in Shrops hire necessitate an increase of accommodationand in staff, th ere b eing no means o f giv ing hard labour for any g reat er number than at present. Sir G. GREY said it was n ot intended to detain the de scription of convicts allu ded t o longer than was actually eand he hoped their detention would be only for a . Some difficulty had arisen r e l a tive to the sub jectoceritsna t n s eque nce of the number of c onv i c ti ons which had u sh ea ie r om y, taken place tor some years, but owing to the decrease that had taken place in the number of sentences to penal servi tude during the present year, there were facilities for effect ing a beneficial alteration ia the existing system. THE BRADFORD RESERVOIRS. Mr. FERRAN D asked the Secretary of State for the son's liome report ntmeenti wheler he had.; rec e i ve d Mr. Rawlin • h , , state of the Bradford reservoirs ; if so, whether he has re p orted the m to be safe; if no t, which are recorded unsafe; and, in the event of any of them being unsafe, whether the Government would take immediate steps to protect those person s whose lives are endangered ; and whether he would lay the report upon the table of the house. Sir G. GREY said that Mr. Rawlinson had not yet presented his repert, and was at present engaged in his other duties in Lancashire. Tie was of opinion that there was no danger to be apprehended from any of the Bradford reservoirs. THE CONFERENCE. Sir H. VERNEY asked the First Lord of the Treasury, whether, at the Conference about to assemble on the affairs of Germany and Denmark, the interests of the inhabitants of the Duchies of Holstein and Schleswig will be repre sented and protected. Lord PALMERSTON s aid that the i n t erests of the Duchies in Tiestion would be fully represented at the coming Conference. In the first place there would be pre sent the representatives of their lawful sovereign, in the next place there would be the representatives of the two German Powers which took up arms to protect, as it was understood the interest of the Duchies,.and then there would be the representatives of the German Diet, who, as might be supposed, would also take care of the in terests of the Duchies. SUB-INSPECTORS OF FACTORIES. Colonel EDWARDS asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether sub-inspectors of factories must be at least 25 years of ago before being appointed : whether it was true that the new scale of salary did not give them any annual increase of pay, but requires thirty years of service before the scale of £5OO a year is reached, and limits the recipients of I'soo a year to two sub-inspectors out o f 20. And whether it is true that the allowance for personal expenses when absent from home is only 12s. a night for a sub-inspector of factories, while the same allowance in other departments is 155., and in some instances £1 per day ; and, if so, why this allowance to sub-inspectors of factories had not been raised to the average standard, Sir G. GREY answered in the affirmative, and repeated the statement he had already made on the subject. THE GERMAN CONFERENCE. Mr. HORSMAN gave notice that he would put a ques tion to the First Lord of the Treasury to the effect that whether the result of the Conference having entered into any engagement which might be binding on this country, the terms of such engagement should nut be submitted to Parliament for sanction before it adoption. ST. MARY'S SYDENH.A.M, BURIAL GROUND. Mr. NE WDEGAEE, on the motion for going into com mittee of supply, moved for a select committee to inquire into the allegations contained in the petition of Mr. Alfred Since (presented 19th February), relative to the Saint Mary's, Syaenham, burial grouu i, and further into the existence, increase, and nature of the Conventual and Monastic communities, societies, or institutions in England, Wales, and Scotland. The hon. member entered into a rather prosy detail of the circumstances connected with this subject. Sir G. GREY, in a very lucid and convincing speech, showed that the hon. member was mistaken in his views, and that there was no necessity for any such committee. [LEFT SITTING.] LONDON GAZE TTE . —T his Evening, At the Court at Windsor, the 7th day of April, 1864 — present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council— this day the Right Hon. Chichester Samuel Fortescue was, by her Maj sty's command, sworn of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took his place at the Board accordingly. At the Court at Windsor. the 7th day of April. 1854 present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council— Her Majesty having bden please.l to appoint the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell to to one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, ho was this day, by her Majesty's com mand, swosn one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State accordingly. At the Court at Windsor, the 71h day of April, 1861— present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council— Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased, on a repre sentation of the Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education, to appoint the Rev. Henry Adair Pickard, of Christ Church, Oxford, M.A., to be'one of her Majsly's Inspector of Schools WINDSOR CASTLE, APRIL 7. Her Majeittv having been graciously pleased to deliver the custody of the Seals of the Duchy and County Palatine of Lancaster to the Right Hon. George William Frederick, Earl of Clarendon, K.G., G.U.8., the oath of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, was this day, by her Majesty's command, administered to him accordingly. ADMIRALTY, APRIL 5. Royal Marine Artillery—First Lieutenant and Adjutant Woollcombe to bo Captain, dated Ist inst., vice Searlo, placed on half-pay—Second Lieutenant John Lay land Needham to be First Lieutenant. BANKRUPT S The following are the only bankrupts of commercial im portance in the liazette:— Altred Jacobson, clothier, Houndeditch Edward Crozier, baker, Albany-street, Regent's .park Alfred Edward Hubbard, beer merchant, Poplar Edgar Riley, organist, Accrington Nathan Shaw, cotton waste dealer, Bolton Harry Jackson, master mariner, Liverpool Richard Hayhurst, cotton waste dealer, Manchester 72 William T. Scott, commission agent, Manchester William Paine, baker, Compton-street, Goswell-road Dawson F. Wigg, publican, St. Peter-street, Islington Gustav Goldberg, travelling jeweller, Manchester William Porteous, travelling draper, Brighton Samuel Simms, beer retailer, Bristol Edward Lawrence, commission agent, Bourne, Lincoln shire Amos Webb, beerhonse .keeper, Tewkesbury William Adam Goes, builder, Torquay, Devonshire Joseph Bailes, leather sell'r, North Shields Henry Thomas Low, blacksmith, North shields John Sidebottom, hard waste spinner, Rochdale BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. Maurice Myers, Birmingham SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. Agnes Miller, Saint Niniaas Robert Osborne, baker, Glasgow Thomas Bryden, farmer, Berclees, Dumfriesshire. Thomas and Smith, perfumers, Dundee Course of the Exchange.—This Day. Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 11 19 11 19i Antwerp .• Brussels — fiamburgh — Paris - -_ . 25 45 25 65 25 45 25 55 13 71- 13 7 25 15 25 25 Ditto .. 3 Months, 25 52 25 60 Marseilles Frankfort on Maine Vienna Trieste Petersburgh 1191 1191 11 95 12 0 11 96 12 5 33 33i Berlin Madrid Cadiz Leghorn Milan Genoa 25 62i 25 67i 25 62# 25 67t 25 62i 25 671 Naples . Palermo .. 25 65 - 25 70 25 65 25 70 Messina .. Lisbon 25 65 25 52_ 52i 0p0rt0.... . _ Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per 0z.... £3 17 9 Mexican Dollars Silver in Bars (Standard) POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH••STREET. COMMITTAL WITHOUT FINES FOR SAVAGE ASSAULTS ON PARK CONSTABLES.—John Porricott, a rough fellow, was charged before Mr. Knox with disorderly conduct in Kensington Gardens and assaulting two of tho park con stables. Benjamin Sims, park.constablo, No. 40, said that on the previ9us afternoon he had his attention called to the pri soner by a lady, who said that she had been frightened by the prisoner ruching up to her wad throwing his arms about. He watched the prisoner and saw him annoy some gentlemen, who were obliged to leave the path in consequence. He told the prisoner that he had better leave the gardens, when he began squaring up to him. succeeded in getting the prisoner to the Serpentine bridge, when two other park constables came to his assistance, and while taking the prisoner, who had been drinking, across Hyde-park, he violently kicked two of the constables. They were then obliged to get the stretcher and strap the prisoner down before they could get him to the station. Edward Robinson, park constable, No. 41, said that while taking the prisoner across Hyde-park, and just as he passed the Magazine Barracks, the prisoner gave him a dreadful kick on the inside of the thigh which had almost disabled him that morning from walking, Richard Nuke, park constable, No. 43, proved receiving a severe kick near the groin from the prisoner. Mr. Knox said the prisoner had made a nice job of it, He might have cost the two constables their lives. Noke said the prisoner insulted everybody he came near, and besides the kick he gave him in the thigh, kicked his hand. _ _ Prisoner remarked that all he could say was that he was very sorry, Mr. Knox said that was all very well, but the prisoner, a fellow with a pair of boots fit for a Cornish wrestler, had kicked two men who were only doing their duty, and if the kick had been an inch higher he might have been before him for murder. He should commit the prisoner, without the option of a fine, for two months' hard labour—a month for each assault. CARRIAGE ROBBERY.—Richard Manners, a lad, was charged before Mr. Knox with stealing a cloth cape, the property of Admiral William Hall, from a brougham in New Bond-street. It appears that the brougham of Admiral Hall was stand ing in New Bond-street, when the coachman, Mr. Smith, of 3, Earl-street, Kensington, saw the prisoner leaving the brougham with the cape in his hand, which he was busily rolling up. The coachman immediately pursued him, and he was taken into custody, , The prisoner was remanded. THAMES. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF ASSAULT.—Joseph Ro senthal, a foreign Jew, who carries on the business of a clothier and outfitter, at No. 189, High-street, Shadwell, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with assaulting Mary Maria Rice, a little girl nearly eight sears of age. Mr. William Cooke, a solicitor, defended the prisoner. The child, who gave her evidence with great readiness and simplicity, is the child of poor parents. Her father is in America, her mother is dwelling on the " ruins" in H a ea'e-court, Ratcliff. The girl who is very little, but remarkably intelligent, said that she and her little brother were on their way home to tea yesterday afternoon, and were met by the prisoner in Ratcliff-highway. He gave her and her brother each a cake. He gave her brother a penny, and told him to go and see the fire. He gave her a farthing, and said he would take her to see the fire, He took her to a house where he lives. He took her into a room. There was no one else there. He put h , r across his knee, and touk a piece of rag and, spat upon it twice, and rubbed it on her person. Mr Paget—Anything else ? Witness—No ; nothing else, sir. Mr Cooke cross-examined the little creature very in geniously. She said she did not go to school, or to any church or chapel. She did not know the time. She be lieved it was about 4 o'clock. Her father was an engine driver. Her mother went to ladies' and gentlemen's houses to work. Her mother had not come with her. She said she had no business in the court. Nicholas Rice, a boy aged 10 years, confirmed the evi dence of his sister as to meeting with the prisoner, and stated that as he returned to the prisoner's house and put his foot in the shop h ave s tar little sister across the pri- He g the pisoner the biscuit he had B oner's knee , bought. The prisoner said he did not like it, and sent him for a second. When he brought the second biscuit the prisoner said that would do very well. His sister was then seated alongside the prisoner, who sent him out again and told him to go and see where the fire was, Hie sister went with him. She would not stop any longer. Directly they left the house his sister made a complaint to him. He took his sister back after looking ate fire, and told the ptisoner th e re was a chimney on fire in a private houee. The pri soner gave him a half-penny and he went home with his sister. In cross-examin ation by Mr. Cooke, the boy said he did not go to school. He stopped at home to mind his sister. His sister told her mother when she came home. He told his uncle, who called for the police. After some further evidence, Mr. Cooke addressed the magistrate. Mr. Paget committed the prisoner for trial. tne proprietor of the hotel at Malta where Gari. baldi and his suite put up refused to receive any remunera.• lion, declaring that he felt only too proud to have had such an illustrious man as the General for his guest. At the in stance of Colonel Chambers, however, he was compelled to accept payment of his bill. THE SON OF QUEEN POMARE, heir presumptive of Tahiti, has come to France to study two curious things is combination, namely, cathedral music and military matters—the high roads to civilisation according to Tahitians. 13.14.1 i 0.14.1 121) 105 100 100 100 100 I 100 too 100 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Railways & St Davimet ilom.,Barodatt.Cent lud G u. syer oeut Paid. all 100 Do. New . Do. E. 5hare5......... Buffalo and Laae Huron Do. Preference .... • • Buff alo,Brant,ArGodrich i p. at. bds. Aug. 1, 18'22 Do. do. July 1, 187 tlo. do. June 1, 16,4 ':lcutta.,.tS.li:astn. (1,11, , Cape Town e: Dock Sail - Eastn. Bengal gu. b p. lßast Indian. gu. 5 p. c. Do. do. LI Ext..... Do. do. FI do. .. Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Ist Pref. Bond*" Do. do. deferml...... Do. 2d V.et. Bonds.. Da. do. deferred...... Do. 3d P, et. stock ... Do. do. deferred...... Do. 4th Bret. stock... Do. cto. deferred...... t•lndia Pentn.gua.sp.c Do. New gua. 5 p. 0... Do. January, 1882 .. Gt. 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Great Western Orig. 46. per cent. pf., 98 West Mid., Ncwp. 6 per cent. pf. rd. at 5 per cent. pm., 100 Lancashire and Yorkshire 6 per cent. stock, 134 London, Chatham, and Dover per cent. pref., 97 Manchester, Sheffield. and Lincoln, 6 per ceat., 127 Stockton and Darlington, B 6 per cent., 33 3 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS London and Blackwall, 4i per cent stk., 1021 34 London, Chatham, &c., Metrop. B 6 per cent., 100 LINES LEASED Ar FIXED RENTALS. Buckinghamshire, 95 London and Chatham, 41 per Cent., Ditto, Corn. Fund stock, 5 per cent., 991 Shrew bury and Hereford, 135 South Stallotdshire, b9l FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 93 Recite ana San Francisco (lim.), gua. 7 per eent.,l,l7k ban rialto (bra.), gua. 7 per cent., 8i Ditto (a 11), 201 FOREIGN MINES. Alamillos, limited, 1 3 / 4 Cape Copper, lim.. 13 3 / 4 Fortuna (Um.), 33 t Mont. Aureos Brazil Gold Min. Co., 21 St. John del Rey (lira.), 4t I 7 United Mexican (Ihn), Yudanaruutana of S. Australia, DOCKS. 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Staffordshire, Um., 20 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 27 GI, Loudon and County, 62 London, hamburg, Cont. Exch., lim., 13 BRITISH Cantorian Consol. Gold lu)itford A m algamated Dever] G. Conn. (T av ist ) 1 East Bassett (Illogan)• • Nast Clogau Gold Ltd.( lEast Caradon ..... • • • • • East Cam Brea... iE. W'lltussel (Tavistk.; IGam.dzSt.Auoyn(Gwen Great South Tolgus Wheal Vor (lielston, (Grenville iierc,d's-Foot ; it ingston Downs Lady Bertha Alergaret (tJny ',elan', arke Styndy Iron Ore (Lim ; New Setun North Downs N.W lt 'I Basset(lllog . ay North Wheal Crotty .. I Par Consols (6t. Blaze) I 'rovidenee (Uny Le Int-)I South Caradon(Steleer. S. Cam Brea (Illogan).. I Wheal Fran. (Illogau, tray Park 1 raniar Silv.& Lead Min , Lin Croft West Basset (Illogan) W Cr radon (Liskeard) . i West Setort •••••• IVlies,l Basset (Mogan; Wheal Buller (Itedruth) W heal Kitty (U.Lelan t) WhealLud , ott W heal Mar yAnnljden ) Wheal Beton Wheal Tretawney (Lis ) Wheal Union 3.4.0 8.9.0 580 17k 4.3.0 24 192 3.1.0 2.6.9 6.16. 8.12 4. 8.0 2.8.6 10.6.7 18.1R.91 ,30.17.6, 2.0.6 3.5. h 103} 441 5 109} I 081 531 118 k 18 19 IJ3: 1004 s.9i I Business dont 102/ i 3 103 i 4 31 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS—Last Evening. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at the usual hour. THE BOMBARDMENT OF SONDERBURG. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY drew the attention of the noble earl the Secretary of Foreign Affairs to the tele gram stating that Sonderburg had been bombarded by the Prussians without any previous knowledge to the inhabi tants. He could not say the statement was true. He hoped it was not, but if it was, it was one of the most out rageous acts ever perpetrated, not only in civilized, but un civilized nations. He trusted that if such was likely to be repeated, the British fleet would be at once despatched to put a stop to such cowardly and most terrible atrocities. Earl RUSSELL said he had seen the telegram, and he nad taken steps to know whether it was true. In the course of a feu days he should be in the possession of correct in formation, and until that time he must defer giving any opinion on the subject. DENMARK. Earl GREY asked the noble lord whether, when the noble lord, not now in his place, brought forward his motion with respect to Denmark, he would take the same objection to a discussion on the subject, similar to that he did previous to the Easter holidays, and whether he would object to a discussion being taken in the early part of the correspondence on the subject that had been laid on the table. Earl RUSSELL said he could not now say that papers were to be laid on the table or negotiations were now going on, because all the Pcwers had agreed to a conference. He should not object to a discussion, neither did he think it desirable to separate the correspondence in order that different parts of it might be separately discussed. THE LEASES AND SALES OF SETTLED ESTATES ACT. ENCLOSURE OF HAMP STEAD-HEATH. Lori CRAN WORTH moved the second reading of this bill, which he said was merely for the purpose of improving an act of Parliament passed some eight years ago, which enabled certain estates to be improved by granting building leases, 1 he Earl of MALMESBURY approved of the bill. The LORD CHANCELLOR also thought the bill would simplify matters which now were left in doubt by the former bill. The bill was read a second time. MALT FOR ANIMALS BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. COURT OF CHANCERY BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. CONVEYANCE &c., IRELAND BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—Last Evening. The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. PRIVATE B USi NESS. The following bills were read a third time and passed : Finchley, Willesden, and Acton Railway—ll aslingden and Rawtenstall Water—and Land Securities Company. The order for committing the Colne Fishery Bill was read and discharged, and the bill was withdrawn. NEW WRI T. On the motion of Mr. BRAND a writ was ordered to issue for the election of a member for Pyfe, in the room of Mr. James Erskine Wemyss, deceased. BREECH-LOADING RIFLES. Mr. ONSLO W asked the Under Secretary of State for War, whether his attention has been called to the vast superiority of the Prussian breech-loading rifles in the Danish campaign, as described in the letter of the Times' correspondentfrom Sonderburg ? The Marquis of HARTINGTON said he had no reason to believe that the breech•loading rifles in question were superior to those given out to our own army, and it was necessary to give the latter a fair trial. THE BUDGET. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose at 20 minutes to 5 o'clock to make his annual financial state ment, the house having gone into committee of ways and means. The right hon. gentleman, who was received with cheers, said : Mr. Massey—With a view to gather fully the purport of the figures which 1 am about to submit to the house, it may be well that we'should notice in the first in stance, though in very few words, the particular circum stances which have affected the condition of the country. In the financial year 1862-3 we had but an indifferent her vest. Ireland was suffering under lamentable depression, and Lancashire had been afflicted beyond all example. Iu the year 1863.4, on the contrary, England at least was blessed with a harvest of unusual abundance; the distress of Ire land was in some degree mitigated, at least as regards the consuming powers of the country and the low price of grain; and as respects Lancashire, the distress which was there suffered had been very considerably reduced, although it still continued in a condition far below that of its usual prosperity and vigour. Upon the whole, therefore, sir, after considering on the one hand the advantages, and, on the other hand, the drawbacks of the year, we may perhaps arrive at the conclusion that circumstances did not differ ma terially from those of an average financial year. Sir, with that brief preface I proceed to lay before the committee the statement which I have to make. And, first, ae respects the financial year which has just expired. The expenditure of, that year, as it was estimated on the 16th of April, 1863 was £67,749,000, But there were augmentations, chiefly in consequence of the New Zealand war, and partly in consequence of payments for the Scheldt toll, which were made during the present session, which raised the amount to £68,281,000. The actual expendi ture, however, under the authority of Parliament was only £67,056,000, or less by nearly a million and a quarter than the sums which the various departments have been autho rised to lay out. As respects the army, its estimates amounted to £15,469,000, but its actual expenditure was no more than £14,638,00, and this although a war has been unhappily raging in New Zealand, which cannot be consi dered to have added less, and may perhaps be esti mated to have added more, to the military expenditure of the country than half a million of money. The votes of the navy were £10,736,000, and the expenditure was very nearly the same, viz., £10,821,000. The miscellaneous services authorised by Parliament were £7,805,000, and the expen diture £7,702,000. And here, sir, it may, perhaps, be well that I should stop for one moment to disabuse the mind of some portion of the house of an impression which has gone abroad as to the constant and rapid increase in the miscel laneous estimates of the country. The miscellaneous ser vices for the year 1859-6) amount to £7,721,000; for the year 1863-64, to £7,702,000; and the estimates for the pre sent year amount, as they now lie upon the table, to £7,628,000. Upon the whole, therefore, this portion of the public expenditure has now for some lime been about sta tionary, for the tendency to decrease—the decrease shown being £93,00,—is too small to state as a fact of much ,igni fiance. There is, however, anotner item of civil expendi ture which was at one period viewed with peculiar and just jealousy by the house. I mean that called the packet estimate. In the year 1860-61 the house was called upon to vote for that estimate £1,069,000. I need not say that it is an estimate which it is difficult to operate upon, inas much as it takes place under contracts that subsist for considerable terms of years. The estimate which we propose to submit for the present year will not amount, to more than £883,000, showing a reduction of £186,000 within the last four years. (Hear, hear.) Now, sir, it is desirable that the house should understand what is the state of our expenditure as it has appeared in the last year, in comparison with the expenditure of former and recent years. I now give it as it appears in the exchequer accounts, only placing to the debit of each year the sums of money which are called "excesses," and which, in the exchequer account, appear of a later year than that te which they properly refer. Taking that view, our expenditure was, in the year 1862-3, £69,302,000, and in 1803-4 it was £67,056,000, showing a decrease of £2,24(3,000. In 1561-2 it was L 70,838,000 ; and the decrease, estimated in the same manner, would be £8,782,000. In 1860-1, when the China charges were very heavy, the expenditure was £72,504,000 ; and the expendi ture of the year just expired, when compared with that sum, shows a decrease of £5,448,000. It I go back to 1859-60, which may be called the first of the years of high expendi ture, we spent £70,017,000 ; and the expenditure of 1863-4, as compared with 1859-60, shows a diminution of £2,961,000. But, in order to come more accurately at the state of this important portion of the case, it is necessary to take into view two circumstances. On the one hand, wa have in curred of late years certain charges for fortifications, and on the other hand, both our expenditure and revenue have in cluded, during the past year, a considerable amount, not less than £1,125,000, which does not appear at all in the ac counts of the previous years. When I rectify the balance by the removal of those new charges appearing on both sides, and by the addition of the charge for for tifications, the account will stand as follows 1859-60 the expenditure was £70,017.000. In 1863-4 it was £66,731,000, fortifications included, showing a de crease, as compared with 1859-60, of £3,286,000. I need not trouble the committee with the comparisons drawn on the same basis for the intermediate years. That may be dis pensed with. I shall have enough of that commodity to present when I am giving full particulars. There still re mains this element, in order to state that case with perfect clearness, that it is also known that in the year 1860 we re ceived, through the providence of our forefathers, a benefit of considerable relief from debt. The permanent annual relief we have been enjoying since 1860 is £2,146,000; but in the year 1859.69, owing to a particular arrangement, the charge on account of these terminable annuities, which dropped altogether in 1860, was increased beyond that amount. As I stated in the budget of 1859-60, the charge in that year on accouui, of terminable annuities, which have since ceased, was £2,546,000, Deducting that sum from the expenditure in 1859.60, for the purpose of comparison w ith the year 1863.4, and as showi ng h ow it s t o od in rela tion to that relief, it stands at £67,471,000. The expendi ture of last year was £66,881,000. That I believe ta be a true comparison. In this point of view the expenditure of last year shows some diminution as c anpared with that of 1859-60. There is an absolute diminution of £649,000, in dependently of the relief from the long annuities, which, although net a very large sum, is worth taking into noice. It is the mote material, as this is the first year I am enabled to state to the house that, after allowing for the relief from the cessation of the long annuities, our actual expenditure, including fortifications, is less than it was in 1859 60. (Hear, hear,) I now come to compare the expenditure of the year which has expired with the revenue of that year, and of course I must go back simply to the exchequer account, in order to explain at this stage the precise effect. The expenditure for the year 1863-64, as it appears in the exchequer account, is £67,056,000 ; the revenue for the same year, as represented in the same account, is £70,208,000, showing a surplus of revenue over expenditure of £3,152,000. But in order to estimate that surplus, it may be necessary to consider the expenditure for fortifications, for althcugh the house made deliberately, and a matter of policy, a separate arrangement for dealing with that expen diture, yet in point of law it must appear in the balance sheet. The expenditure for fortifications for last year was £300,000, and if I deduct that amount from the surplus of the £3,152,000, there will still remain a clear surplus of revenue over expenditure of £2,352,000. Perhaps tha com mittee will desire to know in what way the estimates of the revenue have corresponded with the anticipations which last year the house was encouraged to form. Last year I esti. mated the revenue at the period of the Appropriation Act at £6B,l7l,ooo—the actual receipts have been £70,208,000. The surplus, therefore. of the actual receipt beyond the anticipated receipt is £2,037,000. More or less that surplus appears in every branch of the avenue. The customs were estimated at £22,737,000, but they actually amounted to £23,232,000, of an excess of £500,000. The excise was esti mated at £17,624,000, whereas it yielded £18,207,000. The stamps were estimated at £9,000,000, but they yielded £9,317,000. The income tax was estimated at £8,600,000, but it yielded £9,084,000; and there were other surpluses of small accounts upon remaining items of revenue, with ono slight exception—under the head of China. 'the house naturally looked with great interest, not only to the aggregate, but to the detailed receipt of revenue from the _ . customs; for whatever may be the case with regard to the excise, the customs are the branch of revenue which Aires us the greatest number of criteria for judging of the condition of the people. (Hear, hear.) The total da- crease of customs fur last year, as compared with the previ ous year, when the tea duty was is 5d per pound, was esti mated at £1,297,000, whereas the actual decrease was £802,000. Notwithstanding that, the important article of sugar, including molasses, in consequence of the partial scarcity, instead of increasing with the improved condition of the country, shows a positive decrease of X 153,000. And again, in that branch of the revenue, the decrease of which I always referred to with satisfaction—l mean the revenue derived from the duty upon corn—it was less in the year just expired than in that which preceded it by no less a sum than £225,0G0, thereby bearing testimony to the abundance of domestic produce and the moderation of the price at which the first necessary of life was being supplied to all classes of the community. The article of wine shows an increase of £104,000, which I conceive to b., a very satisfac tory increase. The aiticle of spirits shows en increase of £285,000. Tobacco shows an increase of between £200,000 and £300,000. The article of tea, which had been estimated to ehow at the end of the year a loss to the revenue of £1,300,000, showed only an aettul loss of £930,000. With regard to the large excess of revenue from excise over the estimate, that has been owing to two causes. IN ith the Partial improvement in the condition of the coun try, the article of spirits—that distilled at home—shows an improvement of 1250,000. And the important branch of revenue which we derive from malt, in conEe- quenco of the almost unparalleled excellence of the bar ley harvest, shows the greatest receipt ever known, and an increase over the previous year of £710,000. That is an augmentation we cannot expect in future years, and the committee must bear in mind that the estimate of the revenue from the excise does not bear the sawe relation now to the actual revenue which it did before the malt credits were shortened. Before that time, when it was the practice to give from six to eight months' credit for the payment of the malt duty, the effect was that when tho Chancellor of the Exchequer made his financial statement he knew what his estimate for malt would be for the coming year. At present he only knows about ono-half of it, and on this account there was an element of uncer- tainty introduced int ) the estimates in this particular article, for which some allowance must be made. The only other article of revenue which I wish to refer to is the China in demnity. It was estimated at £i50,000, but the actual re ceipt was £135,000. Sir, if I compare the revenue of the year just passed with the revenue of former years, it is be cause I think that in the growth of the revenue of the coun- ry we have, upon the whole, a pretty sure test of the growth of its strength and of its resources. (Hear, hear.) Com paring then the revenue for 1863.64 with that of the years 1862-63, the result is this—that, although taxes to the ex- ,ent of between £3,000,000 and £4,00 ~ 000 were remitted, the decrease in the revenue would appear to be no greater than £391,0,0. However, that is not precisely correct, for it is necessary to allow for a considerable increase in the two last heads of our receipts, but which ought not to be consi- dered properly heads of revenue—l wean the miscellaneous receipts and the Chinese indemnity. After deducting these two heads, the, revenue for the year 1862 .63 wes £67,850,000; while the revenue for 1863-64, after making a similar deduc tion, stands at £07,173,000. The comparative decrease, therefore, between the two years may be stated at 4'677,000. Bat when it is considered that the remission of taxation for 1863-64 was £3,7o3,ooo—(hear)—that the loss anticipated from the remission was £3,343,000, and that the actual lose was only £677,300—it will appear that the recovery in the re venue has been no less than £3,026,000. (Cheers.) But if we look back further for the purpose of comparing the growth of the revenue of the country, not merely within a twelve month—if we go back to the year 1860-61, since which period we have imposed no new taxes—l do not, of course, take into account charges altogether insignificant —we find that the revenue for 1860-61 showed a gross total of £70,283,000, but, deducting the miscellaneous receipts of which I have spoken, a total of £68,830,000. Well, taking the revenue for '63-64 at £67.176, that shows a decrease in the revenue since 1860.61 of £1,657,000. But then within that period we have taken 3i. from the income tax, which withdraws from the revenue a sum of £3,525,000 ; we have taken off the paper duties, which may be set down at £1,340,000; we have reduced the tea duties, which repre sents a loss to the revenue of £1,660,000 ; while the repeal of the charges upon shipping cost £143,010. Altogether, therebre, there has been a diminution of taxation to the extent of £6,638,000 since the year 1860-61, while there has been a decrease in the revenue to the extent on'y of £1,657,000. (Cheers) The result is, that during these throe years the increase in the revenue has be..n £5,011,000, or at the rate of £1,670,000 a year. (Cheers.) But if we back further still, and compare these results with the average revenue of the five years commencing with 1858- 59, we find that the annual increase in the revenue during those five years has not been so great, As far as I can cal culate, the revenue has grown during these five years, upon the average, £1,233,700 each year. If we go back to 185'; it would appear that the revenue has grown, upon the average, to the full extent of £1,000,000 per annum, and even in the worst years, viz., 1860-61, and 1861-62, the growth has been £900,000, In a better year, such as that which has new e apsed, it has bean nearly £2,000,000. Upon the whole, it may be safely calculated that the in- crease in the revenue from its own inherent vigour is at a rate exceeding £1,000,000 per annum. (Hear, hear) I will now state the condition of our cash account, and the opera- Lone touching the National Debt. The balance in the ex- chequer on the 31st of March, 1863, was £3,763,000, and on the 31st of March, 1864, they were £7,352,000, which is an ample, though not an excessive amount. 'With respect to the liquidation of the debt during the year, it has been con siderable, £1,000,000 of exchequer bonds have been paid off, and £1,994,000 of exchequer bills. Besides that, stock and exchequer bills to the extent of £366,000 have been liqui dated from surplus revenue, making a total of £3,360,000 of the capital of the debt liquidated within the 3 ear. But in dependently of that, the committee should take into view that a large-cum is actually paid, in the shape of terminable annuities, towards the liquidation of the debt, representing not interest, but capital, to the extent of £1,400,060 per an num. There are other payments of a minor dg2seriptiou t;) the extent of £205,000, which brings up the net amount of debt liquidated to £4,148,000. (Hear, hear,) As the re sult of the measure passed last year for the conversion of perpetual into terminable annuities, I have to acquaint flat committee that we have during the last year converted per petual annuities to the extent of £433,000. As regards the huge total of our debt, it has been always a matter of inte rest to know what is the state of the capital charge as cum pared with former periods. I confess I have never been able to acquiesce in the view that, taking into account our great wealth, the national debt was a matter of trifling moment. It appears to me to be a very formidable and inflexible fact, and likely to become much more pave and serious should our prosperity turn out to be leas permanent than most of us are disposed to anticipate. But the actual capital of the national debt at the present moment stands thus. Stock —that is, perpetual annuities—£74o,993,ooo; Bank debts, £37,645,000—and by Bank debts I mean capi tal sums, not the contract value assigned to stock by Act or Parliament, but capital sums repayable in money—ex chequer bonds, £2,600,000; exchequer bills, £10,526, 000 . Making a total amount of debt of £791,574,000, 'laq/3 204-- which was the lowest point the debt reached since the close e of the revolutionary war—it stood at £769,082,000. The Russian war produced, of course, importantLe2h2 92 00C)a 4 ng s in these figures, and the debt now stands at immediately after higher than it stood in '53-'54, In '56 4 , the close of the Russian war, it was ..,80 8 t now stands, as I. have stated, at £791,574,000.861,039,000, which the maximum point of debt, it was -c 1315, the annual 108,000I,nan1:16i charge of the debt was £32,646,0 00 i n views a decrease of £69,465,U 00 . the annual charge L 26,211,000, showing a decreasetan in h d with a reduction of of £6,435,000 ; therefore In 1863-4 it was L an 6 d 9, t 4 h 6 e s, r o c o s O ul a ts g o ai f n t s i t ie Parliament, throughout nation, of its Ministers that we stand with a capital of half-a-century, ceattpoirttasl:ved:onLBo£l9t,e4eooe,xopoeoriaegnaciensotf charge, greatarge 00 facing as for the future, and with an annual C79l ' °U° ' ° rremain for the present between charge which 00,000. (Hear, hear.) The general prosperity mainly depend, is certainly o. ' D O C s t 2 a 6 t , e (;o o o i o t o h o o tlird:4:26sO t s t he country, . upon . which r o .r u , r u f r Ut a lr d e drawback. The figures are so (flor et-ens subject CO a mustThi! is surprising when we coutider it is a ti I will give them stieng that they are almost staggerieg. muus in the largest and simplest form for the Year 6 _ s6l .62 1 '6-4; .bar, jou Sk I 20 stock stcc,k stock 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 stook 4to( k s I ock stook 100 100 100 100 100 1041 & 10 1 7i 2i 1421 103 2